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Free School Visit
Year 1 students recently visited a very unusual school to stimulate their thoughts about the purpose of education. The Maharishi Free School in Skelmersdale was formerly an independent school before transferring into the state sector to become a free school. The school has a very distinctive educational philosophy – developed out of the teachings of…
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Inspirational Induction at Stretford High School
Starting PGCE is always going to be a challenge so positive messages and an inspirational induction in a successful secondary school set the right tone for the rest of the training year. This is the third year running in which PGCE trainees have had the professional boost of an induction day at Stretford High school,…
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Dynamic Partnerships
Inspiration and professional messages from Stretford High You don’t need me to tell you that training as a secondary teacher is a daunting process, so it makes it all the more important that our trainees hear from recently qualified successful practitioners who are making an impact. We’ve enjoyed a strong partnership with Stretford High school…
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‘Crime and Punishment’ : Ribblesdale High School Gifted and Talented Study Day
‘People should take illegal drugs if they want to’ ‘Reformation is the most important aim of punishment’ Controversial and contentious statements, not the easiest assertions to evaluate and guaranteed to provoke argument and debate! In fact, debate, discussion and heated argument was our aim, as twenty year 10 GCSE high flyers and their teacher, CM,…
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Holocaust Remembered
Dr Mayer Hersch MBE paid his annual visit to Edge Hill University to tell gathered RE and History ITE students together with pupils from a number of parternship schools the story of his survival during the darkest days of the Nazi regime. Mayer was only 13 when the Nazis invaded his homeland Poland and his…
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AfL & Co-operative Learning
Final Year Undergradaute students were delighted to spend the day in one of our Partnership Schools, Our Lady’s RC High School in Blackley, Manchester, where they were able to draw upon the expertise of the Professional and Curriculum Mentors in the areas of Assessment for Learning and Co-operative groupwork. The school is situated in a…
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Primary Practice for year 1
The New RE syllabus for Catholic Primary Schools ‘Come and See’ requires that pupils gain an insight into the major world religions. For the mutual benefit of the school and our undergraduate Trainees we were invited in to Blackbrook St Mary’s Primary School to deliver an assembly on the Story of Rama and Sita to…
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KS4 Judaism Conference
Year 2 Undergraduates who have been studying Judaism this semester took their knowledge and skills into school for two days recently. Lathom High School held a two day conference for their Year 10 pupils. On the first day Staff from the school were joined by RE undergraduates from Edge Hill as the whole year was…
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Islam and Spirituality at the Network Meeting
Almost a dozen Mentors, Lecturers and consultants were able to attend the RE Subject Network’s recent twilight session held at Byrchall High School. We were privileged to have the input of Emma Mcvittie who explained how her ME! resource was helping pupils develop spiritual literacy in both primary and secondary settings nationwide. This was followed by a general discussion…
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Behaviour for learning at Stretford High School
PGCE trainees enjoyed high quality behaviour management training courtesy of our colleagues at Stretford High school. As always, we received a very warm welcome from our Stretford colleagues, including Faisal Ahmed and Mez Munshi, recent highly successful PGCE alumni. Stretford’s lead behaviour and attendance professional, Leila, took us through Stretford’s highly successful behaviour policy which underlined just how effective…
